Medullary Narkose (Spinal Anesthesia)

[Spinal anesthesia].

[YouTube as an information source of spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia and combined spinal and epidural anesthesia].

INTRODUCTION Social media as YouTube have become a part of daily life and many studies evaluated health-related YouTube videos. Our aim was to evaluate videos available on YouTube for the conformity to textbook information and their sufficiency as a source for patient information. MATERIAL AND METHOD A search of the YouTube website was performed using the keywords "spinal anesthesia, epidural...

Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia

Regional anesthetic techniques are rapidly evolving to meet the needs of an ever increasing day surgery patient population. Rapidity and control of onset and offset of anesthesia with minimal side effects are now required of regional anesthetic techniques if these are to compete with general anesthesia. Spinal and combined spinal epidural (CSE) anesthesia for the day surgery patient are discuss...

Spinal anesthesia: practical applications.

The recent widespread popularity of spinal anesthesia can be traced to two events. One is the appreciation that, when used for operations below the level of the umbilicus, anesthetically induced physiologic trespass is less with spinal than with general anesthesia. The other is the recognition that modest hypotension with peripheral vasodilation, that may be seen with spinal anesthesia or intra...

Thoracic Spinal Anesthesia

In 1909 Thomas Jonnesco published his interesting paper under the title General spinal anesthesia through an approach of the subarachnoid space at a thoracic level, providing condition for surgery on the skull, head, neck and thorax. Etherington-Wilson proposed explaining the various possibilities for the spinal anesthesia. Leonardo da Vinci was considered the discoverer of Human and animal Ana...